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Word: altars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that for $100 he can bring rain. With the money in his jeans, he spouts philosophy, poetizes, woos the girl, teaches her to have faith in herself. By the time he rides off to make a new pitch, she is well on her way-with another beau-to the altar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 8, 1954 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...seem to care whether anybody liked him personally or not. He had little to bargain with except the hopes he himself had aroused by pledging his troth to Western European Union in London. Now, with all the invitations issued, the guests on hand, the church bells pealing and the altar in sight, he was using that hope as a lever, threatening to balk unless he got his way on just one little matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Hard Bargainer | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

Above the high altar of the Benedictine Abbey of Ampleforth, in Yorkshire, hung a man. He was holding on precariously to the foot of the crucifix, while a voice said: "Amplexus expecta [Cling and wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prophet of Hope & Fear | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...factors, including cartels and building programs, obviously not by the ECSC alone. Nor are the loans to the Coal and Steel Community spent solely to produce coal digging machines. The issue here is that is fearing slight damage to coal exporters, the Senate Committee has sacrificed ECSC on the altar of domestic pressure. Because the fortunes of the U.S. are so bound with those of a strong Europe, the Senate must view home issues in the perspective of its foreign commitments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aid for Europe | 10/6/1954 | See Source »

...last week, the knight was back at the sprite's side and married her without fatal consequences in Bürgenstock's miniature mountainside chapel. In Ferrer, 37, Audrey had her first husband. In Audrey, 25. Ferrer, whose knightly charms have led to some confusion at the altar in the past, had a fourth marriage and third wife; he had four children (Pepa, 13, Mark, 10, by wife No. 1; Mela, 12, Christopher, 11, by wife No. 2), remarried wife No. 1, who divorced him last December in Juárez. Friends and relatives wished the newlyweds well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 4, 1954 | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

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